depute
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Advocate depute Alan Cameron put it to her that it was "just nonsense" to suggest another child caused such injuries.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
Advocate depute Lindsey Dalziel, for the Crown, had previously told the court about the "devastating" loss suffered by Taylor's family.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
Advocate depute Chris McKenna previously told the court that the 15-year-old girl had spent the evening at a friend's home before walking along Lothian Road to a bus stop.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
Advocate depute Scott McKenzie told the court that Colville, an early years assistant, had no previous convictions.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2025
I know it is asking a good deal, but would you accompany any one we may depute to go?
From Betty Grier by Waugh, Joseph Laing
Thirdly, those on more than £60,000 - essentially some heads and deputes - will receive a flat pay rise of £3,000.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2023
Under the terms of the latest offer, pay rises would be capped for those earning above £60,000 - principally some heads and deputes.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2022
The deputes start moving toward him and he starts walking at them again.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
At about 10:40 p.m., deputes in Nash County tried to pull the vehicle over, Stone said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2022
He must be able to feel that the thing which he deputes to each will be as surely and as faithfully done as though done by his own hand.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 by Various
"But media teams deputed inside Jinnah Convention Centre do not know what's happening outside."
From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026
When he failed to do so, his cousin Amy Lowell took on the task: “I like to imagine that the task has been deputed to me in his stead.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
The day after his death, she was deputed to deliver an emotional speech to the world's press, who had gathered at the quayside.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2021
He was usually deputed to pick up the opposing playmaker and the coach Bobby Haarms described him as being "like a kamikaze pilot" as he pursued him, often deep into opposition territory.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2013
He frequently accompanied the three little girls and the second nurse, when they were deputed to carry a basket of good things to any house in the village where there was need.
From A Soldier's Son by Butler, Maude M.
Amid fresh cries of "Shame!" irate M. P.'s exacted a promise that there be no "deputing."
From Time Magazine Archive
She could not bear the idea of deputing to any one the active measures necessary to be taken in order to save Jem.
From Mary Barton by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
I couldn't think of deputing the task to my father.
From The Doctor's Dilemma by Stretton, Hesba
Sooba's wife followed closely at her heels deputing another woman to take up her duties.
From The Outcaste by Penny, F. E.
Mrs. Butler withdrew; but, deputing to May Hettly and to David the supply of the strangers' wants, she hastened into her own room to read the letter.
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Scott, Walter, Sir
